A laborer is someone who works doing a job, usually physical labor. Someone may labor as a farmer, planting fields or taking care of cows. Someone may deliver the mail to hundreds of mailboxes a day, or stock shelves in a grocery store.
When a company needs employees to come work for them, they put out ads or messages telling people that they are looking to hire workers, until they find the right person for the job.
God has sent out His message to find laborers to work for Him. He is looking for Christians to labor for Him and tell others about what His Son Jesus did for them on the cross.
The world is full of people waiting to hear about the love that Jesus has for them and what He did for them. They need to hear about how He died for their sins so that they can repent of the sins that they have committed and begin a new life for the Lord. They need to come to Christ and accept Him as their Savior, and in order for them to hear about Jesus, someone needs to go and tell them.
“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:36-38
Just as a company will reward those who work for them with a paycheck, God will reward those who labor for Him, and that reward is everlasting life. Some men might sow the initial seed of faith in a person’s heart, and go out and plant more seeds of faith elsewhere, and another man may help that seed to grow big and strong, watering it, and feeding it with the word of God, until that seed of faith grows into a strong, mature Christian.
“Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
1 Corinthians 3:8-9
“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” Hebrews 6:10
The Bible teaches that there are few that will be saved, so we need to make certain that we tell as many people as we can about the mercies of God.
Pray for your neighbors, people in your town, citizens and leaders of your country, rich and poor, that they would come to Christ, and labor for the kingdom of God. Pray that they would become Christians and that their life would be an example for others how to live so that everyday more and more names are added to the Book of Life. Go out and be a laborer for the Lord!
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 